Prelate emphasizes: Ukraine conflict is invasion, not civil war
February 20, 2015
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church emphasized that Ukraine is not experiencing a civil war but a foreign invasion.
“We have an aggression of a foreign country against the Ukrainian citizens and Ukrainian state,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said in an interview with the Zenit news agency.
“We have almost two million refugees, right now in Ukraine,” he added. “140,000 children are among those who are the victims. So we are witnessing the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in Eastern Europe after the end of the Second World War.”
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